On 11/02/15 11:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:38:27 +0000, thegeezer wrote: > >> the confusing bits are that gentoo can use hotplug detection from udev >> to start/stop interfaces for you magically >> also netplug/ifplug will detect carrier changes and start/stop magically > ifplugd/netplug should not be configured to start interfaces. They just > need to be installed so openrc can use them. > > ah yeah quite right i should have been clearer re: netifrc start and interface start --- they add "inactive" to the status when there is no connection so the states go
/etc/init.d/net.blah start stopped > inactive > started and only trigger the netifrc start process when going from inactive > started but they do stop from a netifrc perspective the interface when going started > inactive i.e. routes and IP addresses are added/removed, but the interface is still up (but unplugged) better to use hotplug imo but different use cases need different things
